Ann Bishop, Virginia Blake, Amelia Bogle, Anne E.Carey, Sarah Ann Douglass, Rebecca Hailstock, Emma Hall, Emmeline Higgins, Margaret Johnson, Martha Richards, Dinah Smith, Mary Still, and one Peterson were teaching in families.

See _Statistical Inquiry_, etc., 1849, p.

19; and Bacon, _Statistics of the Colored People of Philadelphia_, 1859.] [Footnote 2: _Statistical Inquiry into the Condition of the Colored People of Philadelphia_, in 1859.] Situated like those of Philadelphia, the free blacks of New York City did not have to maintain their own schools.

This was especially true after 1832 when the colored people had qualified themselves to take over the schools of the New York Manumission Society.

They then got rid of all the white teachers, even Andrews, the principal, who had for years directed this system.